[c-nsp] Third-Party support providers for 650x switches ???

[Matthew Huff]

I agree. Replacing the chassis and getting official Cisco support would be my 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice. Unfortunately, as cheap as
the E-Chassis might appear, four of them are too expensive given the current business challenges. Failing that, getting 3rd party
support is about my only other choice. The other consideration is that in the next 18-24 months there is a strong chance we would be
downsizing our datacenter footprint, and investing new capital in the large chassis is not something I think would be accepted right
now. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Justin
> M. Streiner
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:08 AM
> To: 'cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net'
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Third-Party support providers for 650x switches ???
> 
> Matthew Huff wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, the entire support is tied to the chassis, so support for
> > the line cards, sup engine, etc will become EOS without the chassis
> > under support.
> 
> The question still remains as to what you are looking for a third party to
> do for you in this situation.  If vendor support is important to you, it
> might be worth getting an E chassis (not that expensive) and taking the
> outage to replace the chassis.  It just sounds like you're at risk of
> painting yourself into a corner by not doing that.
> 
> jms
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